The Music Trade Is In A Stand Still
The resort trade is a multi-billion dollar growing trade. Nevertheless it is also a method of rationalizing a highly inflated value for mezcal made with tobalá, tepeztate and other “designer” agave species (without after all denying the customarily dramatic increased price of producing mezcal with them; although with the current stratospheric price of buying espadín piñas on the open market, who knows?).\n\nSo there I was, in my late 20’s with 7 years underneath my belt in the biz operating a branch office, the just lately applied landmark Federal legislation – The Reality in Lending Act was only a couple of …